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Where would the dumpsters go? Serious question, the impression I get is that there is no room in many places in the city.
by macintux 2y ago
Where would the dumpsters go? Serious question, the impression I get is that there is no room in many places in the city.
- bobbylarrybobby 2y agoParking spots that currently house individuals’s cars could be used for dumpsters instead.
- DonHopkins 2y agoWhat if all cars were required to haul trash?
- rincebrain 2y agoIgnoring the political backlash around taking people's parking, I would instead point out the likely rate of hitting dumpsters in the street with how tightly packed people would park around them. NYC was, for large stretches, built without the alleys that lots of other cities would use to store such bins, and I don't think you can easily accommodate the volumes of trash that people want to turn over with just street storage without significant logistical problems with how much you disrupt the flow of people in the city. Even if we eat the cost of parking around residential locations, businesses have gotten used to using the space in front of their restaurants as additional seating, so cannibalizing that for dumpsters will cause massive backlash on that front, to say nothing of the nasty effects on people's desire to eat when sitting next to a dumpster. I agree that NYC is slow moving on a lot of things, but this is also a genuinely hard problem.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThey had plenty of room for on street restaurant expansions in many parts of the city.
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- bombcar 2y agoRoom would have to be found. At this point, even massive dumpsters on the sidewalk would be an improvement.
- yostrovs 2y agoDumpsters would go where trash goes now. Instead of trash sitting on the street, the same trash will sit inside dumpsters.
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